rawk Archive
29 Apr 2015
Hungry Hearts: Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats Release New Album
“I meet some people, and they say, ‘Oh, you’re a musician? You’re never going to eat,’” says the singer-songwriter/guitarist/namesake of Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats. He recently finished a […]
28 Apr 2015
Album Review: The Moody Blues — The Magnificent Moodies (Part 2)
Continued from Part One... The early Moody Blues certainly deserved better success than they found. Their lack of chart action was certainly a factor in Denny Laine‘s departure. But during […]
27 Apr 2015
Album Review: The Moody Blues — The Magnificent Moodies (Part 1)
Not long ago I interviewed Moody Blues founding member/flautist/vocalist Ray Thomas; much of our conversation centered around a new box set documenting the group’s pre-Days of Future Passed material. That […]
24 Apr 2015
Sometimes People Remember: A Conversation with Translator’s Steve Barton (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… “When you’re working with a producer like David Kahne or Ed Stasium, they care about the process, too,” Steve Barton notes. “Everyone has an interest in […]
23 Apr 2015
Sometimes People Remember: A Conversation with Translator’s Steve Barton (Part 1)
Though they’re perhaps best known for their 1982 single “Everywhere That I’m Not” – a quirky yet extremely catchy rock tune that subsequently found its way onto more than a […]
22 Apr 2015
The Broadcast Will Continue Touring After This Important Local Message
“We can jam, but we are definitely not a jam band,” says Caitlin Krisko, vocalist and songwriter of The Broadcast. Her band’s albums feature shorter songs because “we write songs; […]
21 Apr 2015
Lloyd Cole: Standards and Practices, Part 2
Continued from Part One… I laughed and expressed my surprise that the sometimes singer/songwriterly Lloyd Cole is a fan of 1970s krautrock. “I’m going to be in Berlin in September, […]
20 Apr 2015
Lloyd Cole: Standards and Practices, Part 1
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions debuted onto the music scene in the 1980s, a period that dovetailed nicely with my college years. Their debut Rattlesnakes came out in 1984, and […]
16 Apr 2015
Album Review: Stevie Ray Vaughan — The Fire Meets the Fury
To a lot of people in the 1980s, Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitar hero they had been looking for. Seemingly bursting on the scene without warning, the Texas guitarist […]
09 Apr 2015
DVD Review: Freak Jazz, Movie Madness and Another Mothers
The back catalog of Frank Zappa is massive, and massively intimating. Never the most commercially-minded of artists, the virtuoso Zappa recorded and released more than fifty albums during his lifetime. […]